Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Claudia... you've been a very very naughty little girl.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.